-- I couldn't agree more with this Gawker post about NYC subway service that Mike Daisey reblogged. To quote Tony Harrison... This Is An Outrage!
-- Andrew Haydon at the Guardian wonders about the sorry state of theatre photograhpy. In New York, major production photography is almost entirely done by one not-particularly-interesting photographer, which I always find kind of dismaying.
-- Andrew Sullivan shares with us (and fisks) the GOP's Ten Commandments. These aren't a joke, these are the actual Ten Commandments for Republicans. Violate two of them, and you lose your funding. Meanwhile, Democrats are allowed to threaten to filibuster the President's top legislative priority without fear of anything happening to them at all.
-- I read a Harper's article awhile ago making the case that one of the reasons why US schools performed so poorly compared to their European counterparts had little to do with funding and more to do with expectations, namely that schools are expected to provide all sorts of social services (basic medical care etc) that the social safety nets of Western European social democracies take care of. Anyway, this article in the WaPo talks about how now schools in some areas are, basically, feeding kids that can't get food elsewhere.
-- As a loyal Buck's Rocker, I don't think I'm allowed to congratulate Stage Door Manor for having campers in the Thanksgiving Parade. So, uh, I won't.
-- Do you follow Urbaniak's twitter feed? You should, it has the most hilarious hashtag memes around.
-- If you want some good evidence that Obama's trip to China was not, in fact, a failure, here's a good place to start.
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